Fromsweet +‎-ing.

sweeting (pluralsweetings)

1. (obsolete) Asweetapple.

   Coordinate term:souring

   • a.1569 (date written),Roger Ascham, edited byMargaret Ascham,The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published1570,→OCLC:

     a childe will chose asweeting, because it is presentlie faire and pleasant, and refuse a Runnet, because it is than grene, hard, and lowre[…]

   • c.1591–1595 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iv],page62:

     Thy wit is a very Bitter-ſweeting, / It is a moſt ſharpe ſawce.

2. (obsolete) Adarling;term of endearment.
   • c.1601–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iii]:

     Trip no further, prettysweeting.

sweeting

1. presentparticiple andgerund ofsweet

• weesting

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